Fyodor Smirnov

Fyodor Smirnov was the ship doctor of the battleship Potemkin at the time of the 1905 Russian Revolution.

Biography
Smirnov served as a doctor in the Imperial Russian Navy, serving aboard the battleship Potemkin. In 1905, he was called to the deck by commander Ippolit Giliarovsky to inspect some meat that the sailors were supposed to eat. The sailors claimed that the meat was crawling with worms, but Smirnov stated that they were maggots, and that they could be washed off prior to cooking. The quality of the meat on the Potemkin would lead to a mutiny against the commanding officers and the deaths of the officers.